Pure Path

Simplifying surgical scrub-ins/protocols by automating the timing process to ensure that patients are operated on safely and carefully.

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Inspiration

To support the well-being of patients while being provided care by the healthcare provider. Makes it easier on both the healthcare provider and the patient to know that they are being treated safely.

What it does

Our solution utilizes a distance sensor to detect when someone has started the scrubbing-in process, and will play buzzer sounds depending on if they have correctly finished the handwashing protocol of 2 minutes. There are LED's to also indicate what stage of the process the provider is in, so they can visually see if they have successfully completed the process or not.

How we built it

We built our solution with hardware by utilizing our Arduino, distance sensor, an LCD screen, a push button, buzzer, 2 breadboards, and a red & green LED. We simulated everything on TinkerCAD first, then we built our physical solution. Our software is more web design-based so it pulls the data collected from the Arduino and populates the information with various statistics on the web page as insights.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges with translating the design that we had on TinkerCAD to the Arduino IDE, because the particular programming that we had done didn't work fully, but we altered/pivoted and did some research to avoid this.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the project that we've made because we know that in the initial stages itself the kind of impact that it will make on healthcare providers by streamlining processes while also ensuring that the patients are being taken care of.

What we learned

We learned more about the different sensors that we used in our project, along with our Arduino to create/craft the solution.

What's next for Pure Path

We would use an infrared sensor to ensure that the detected motion is from a human, to confirm findings from the distance sensor, and improve accuracy. On the software end, we would try to setup a backend with a database that will also support provider logins in an effort to support compliance.

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